Deceitful Game

Chapter 274 [Possible Potential Energy]

Paradox Engine.

Currently, this technology is owned by Tailing Heavy Industries within the Cataclysmic Sector. However, like the Collar System and the Sky Dome System, it is a technology shared by the eight major powers.

This is a new-era energy technology that surpasses nuclear fusion, offering stable, pollution-free output with enormous energy production—truly "infinite energy." The magnificent spectacle of the "six major sectors" was built using this energy technology.

With the support of this unlimited energy source, even space travel has become possible.

It's important to understand that, to date, none of the eight giants have obtained a faster-than-light engine. The fact that they dare to attempt interstellar colonization under these circumstances is all thanks to the Paradox Engine.

"You should know how the paradox engine works, right?"

Ai Shiping asked, "I feel that these two things should be related."

"Ah, more or less."

Mingbo nodded slightly: "Potential energy, right?"

This is no secret.

On the contrary, this is even a required subject for them in college.

Just like the two industrial revolutions of the last century, the paradox engine is the third industrial revolution.

"The Paradox Engine was invented by Dr. Zhuang Yan. It utilizes one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century: [possibility] is not merely a mathematical or philosophical concept, but rather a 'resource'."

Mingpo took out a crimson time token, stared at it, and said softly, "We are able to become the wronged because the deceivers, by going back to the past and changing the past, created new causes and effects on us, who were previously unrelated to them, thus creating a 'potential difference of possibility.' At this moment, their excess possibilities have been exhausted because the past has been changed; while our possibilities have increased abnormally because we have become the wronged and may become the deceivers."

"Just like how dams can be used for hydroelectric power generation due to the potential energy difference."

"The 'potential difference' we carry will become a bargaining chip in the long run. Its essence is that the 'possibilities' that were not chosen have been transformed into a miracle."

"If we could artificially create this 'potential difference' without converting it into time chips... that would generate an enormous amount of energy. In simpler terms, it would be 'using time chips without going back to the past or creating new causal relationships with anyone in the past.' For example... the process of imprisoned mining machines continuously mining paradoxical technologies would constantly generate energy."

In a sense, this falls under the category of bio-electricity generation.

However, the fuel it consumes is not strictly speaking the Time Chip, but merely a byproduct of using the Time Chip. Or rather, it's "the possibility of giving birth to a new deceiver." The collection of paradoxical technology is necessary, so this energy becomes "something that appears naturally." Although the initial chips will soon be used up.

However, the process of earning chips from adventure games can very well be created out of thin air.

With just one chip as an entry ticket, you can obtain several times the chips. The source of this power is the possibility of "parallel worlds," namely, those "adventure worlds."

The technology sounds simple and is easy to understand. But the real challenge lies in "how to collect this wasted energy."

This is the difficult part of the paradox technology, and also the truly confidential part.

The serum in Minper's collar that allows him to accelerate time is a derivative of this technology.

The raw material for this serum is the blood of "the deceiver who makes the chips of time spin in vain".

For example, "Let me arrive at the location one hour from now," but I won't move at all during that one hour.

So the deceiver who remains in the same place is now full of "possibilities." Because he may move, or he may not move. Every part of his body has the same possibility.

Because he might leave his left hand at home, his right hand at the office, or cut off a lock of hair and put it in a McDonald's hamburger. No matter what he does, his situation is already determined in the next instant.

However, if you put him in the blood-drawing state of the mechanical device before he uses his chips, the machine will draw enough blood instantly because the time is accelerated.

This conman needs to personally operate the machine in the gaps of his own time, using this derivative technology to transform his blood into "uncertainty serum" and preserve it.

This serum is the valuable resource that enables the Executive Department to accelerate its own physical time!

It was sealed in a special device and stored within a collar. Once activated, it would continuously inject this serum full of possibilities. It remained in that one-hour acceleration.

Although the amount injected into the body is very small, the possibility of this acceleration will be lost soon after the injection due to the return to normal time and space. But even this "tiny inertia" diluted to the extreme is enough for the executives to increase the flow of time by one or even two times! Whether it is the "uncertainty serum" or the "paradox engine", they are just the most basic and superficial powers developed by relying on the time chip.

One is "time acceleration," and the other is "skipping the process." Just by studying these two seemingly insignificant functions of the time machine, humanity has already obtained world-changing, groundbreaking technology!

How can this not drive people crazy?

"The chips of time are the flesh and blood of the gods, while the eight giants are like maggots feeding on the corpses of the gods."

Ai Shiping tossed the copper coin into the air and said slowly, "They're fat and healthy, yet they think they're the kings of the world."

"Don't say that."

Mingpo casually remarked, "Why isn't the king of maggots a king? We're all maggots now anyway."

"you're right."

Ai Shiping smiled, tossed the copper coin up again, and said nothing more.

About two minutes later, the cold air on the ground became unbearable.

Carriage number five is different from all the previous carriages.

It was an extremely long corridor, yet there were no seats. The corridor was lined with a dense network of pipes and cables, and the air was thick with an indescribable, pungent odor of machinery… like felt, industrial lubricant, and a bit like smelly rubber. A low, continuous hum could also be faintly heard.

It looks like a factory, but there are no machines.

As the temperature continued to drop, Ai Shiping and Chen Bingwen, in order to prevent frostbite, clung to the pipes like koalas, keeping their feet off the ground as much as possible.

When the three people behind them arrived, panting heavily, their expressions were not good either.

"you……"

Chu Yunge was about to say something when she was interrupted by a voice coming from behind her.

Mingpo and Ai Shiping also keenly sensed something.

A strange chill rose up my spine.

Something... is approaching.

"They're here."

Mingpo narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice.

The lights in the corridor they came from went out one by one from the end.

It was as if something had swallowed the light, or as if darkness was slowly approaching.

Mingpo subtly stepped forward, blocking Ai Shiping and Chen Bingwen's path.

As for the remaining three, Mingpo simply waved his hand slightly: "Get out of the way."

Seeing the three people scrambling to the side to retreat, Mingpo didn't retreat but advanced, slowly moving step by step into the darkness. The darkness spread faster and faster, like a snowball rolling downhill.

ten meters...

five meters...

Three meters...!!

Suddenly, something that had turned off the lights stopped abruptly two meters in front of Mingpo.

The darkness stopped.

The next moment, the world turned upside down!